Hello everyone,
Firstly the required out the way:
Platform: Windows XP
Lilypond Version: 2.7.8
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I have been using the new version(s) of Lilypond for a while and I find
the us
of PDF file a little annoying especially when fine tuning a score. You
have to
remember to close out of the current document before you run lilypond as
the
current scheme is to delete the old pdf and make the new one. So if you
fail to
close the score your viewing in the PDF viewer before you compile you
receive an
error message which means going through the sequence again remembering
this time
to close the document in the pdf viewer.
While this is only a minor quible it becomes more noticeable when
editing a
large score i.e. across many pages. To make a simple adjustment say the
padding
of slur or dynamic this becomes frustrating as you need to close down
the pdf
file, make the adjustment and then manually load newly generated pdf
back into
the pdf viewer and then try and find the page and staff to where you
made the
adjustment. This can be very annoying and slow down the work rate
especially
when you are making guesses to padding / layout / making lyric
corrections etc.
I know in the older versions of lilypond a dvi viewer could be used as a
fast an
easy way to make changes. Since the newer versions only produce a .ps
file and .pdf
file this it out of the question. I tried using 'gsview' with the .ps
file but
gsview complains that there too many errors and won't display the music.
I use
gsview all the time especially when entering music with PMX/Musixtex and
can
have the .ps loaded all the time and when I update the score it
refreshes the
screen with the changes made while retaining the same view of the same
page I
was working on. This makes fine tuning scores much simplier and time
efficient.
Is there a way to use the .ps file with gsview I know I won't be able to
use
point and click but since I usually number all the bars in a score I
don't see
this as problem and if things get a little tricky I can always go back
to the
pdf score to find the offending line. I don't use point and click as it
is but
simply use the pointer to give me the line number to go back to file to
find.
Any hints / help appreciated.
Regards,
Trent
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